For the second time in the last few months, Super Mondays isn’t actually on a monday. In fact, its not even in August. Its been moved to tuesday, 1st September, and if that’s not confusing enough for you, they’ve gone one better and change venue as well.
I can’t quite decide if its more reminiscent of the drama of a classic detective novel, or the glamour of a grand premiere, but the venue is only going to be revealed a week before the event. It’s more probable though, that Ross has just had a busy week and hasn’t secured a venue yet! I guess that its also that bit more dramatic for me personally, as i’ll be one of the speakers time around.
Over the past few months, I’ve been inspired by some great speakers, talking very knowledgeably about fascinating subjects, engaging audience in debates and demonstrating remarkable technology. So in the the barcamp tradition, I volunteered to put something back and do a stint spotlight.
Having made the decision to do a presentation the next question was, what could i talk about?…I’m not an entrepreneur, with my own start up to talk about, nor am i a developer, at the cutting edge of some new technology or even an academic having just written some fascinating new researcher paper… So what could i stand up, in a room full of geeks, techies and entrepreneurs and talk about?
The final answer that i came up with, was to talk about my involvement in the development of BALTICs online shop. I described this as “building an e-commerce solution the hardway!“. Despite all advice to the contrary, for my first shop project, i chose a developer with no experience of building an ecommerce solution from the ground up, and briefed them to forget any existing technologies, packages or libraries and start from scratch.
If you want to hear how i got on, you’ll have to register for this months SuperMonday (on a tuesday).
Also up is a discussion on Version Control with:
Also up is a discussion on Version Control with:
Folders rock — An Other
SVN licks the floor — Oli Wood
Git is ‘geet lush’ — Paul Callaghan
And finishing off, with a general discussion on the BBC, focussing on amongst other things the move to Manchester, and whether they have an unfair advantage providing services in the web environment, with their massive public sector resources.
I prefer to think of it more like a secret warehouse party. Old-school.
As someone who is currently building my first ecommerce project the hard way, I look forward to your presentation. Shaping up to be a good night all round!
That’s an interesting idea, Supermonday’s ,the new secret warehouse party. I like that idea. Wonder if we’ll have to tune into some dodgy pirate radio station to get the venue details. ;->
Hope that the ecommerce project is going well, brave decision to build from scratch! If you have any querries about what we did for the baltic online shop project, send me a DM or email me.
Hi David,
Unfortunately, it’s not as exciting as a warehouse party and you guessed it correctly…I have just been too busy to organise a venue ;(
We have a venue in mind, we are just negotiating a price. More news soon,
Ross
@David: I’m sure I’ll have a whole bunch of questions – I’ll save them for after your presentation, as I’m sure you’ll answer many during the talk.
@Ross: it’s too late now – all I can see when I think about the Code Repository discussion is some kind of breakdance showdown in an underground carpark (sadly not a format you can vote for on the feedback form).